Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:52:33 +0700 From: Edho P Arief <edhoprima@gmail.com> To: Colin Mitchell <crm@colinrmitchell.endoftheinternet.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware RAID and FreeBSD. Message-ID: <BANLkTinO9-RT4MhAhg7A%2B7XOx_HBg8YHgQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1304035891.5251.7.camel@lenovo> References: <1304035891.5251.7.camel@lenovo>
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Colin Mitchell <crm@colinrmitchell.endoftheinternet.org> wrote: > Anyways, I bought a new lower-end computer that I was hoping to replace > both with. It is a dirt-cheap dual-core AMD that I had built for > $175US. It came with a 500GB HDD, and I would like to get another one > to put in it. Now, I would like to set up as a mirrored RAID setup (I > think). I don't really know much about RAID, but I want to have the same > disk image on both hard drives (in case one fails), and possibly three > if I buy another HDD in the future. Is RAID 1 what I want? I also want > to do SVN on it for my PhD code, as well as back up my Wordpress, > Coppermine, etc... > > Now, here is where the FreeBSD gurus can chime in. I would like to get > a hardware RAID card to tie it all together. I am also looking for a > cheap one, maybe $30-$60US, if this is even feasible. Anyone have any > suggestions? Any successes? > As I'm in softraid camp, I suggest saving yourself from buying a raid card (especially the cheap ones) and use gmirror instead. > Also, I see a lot of talk on here bout ZFS. Is this something I should > try, instead of the standard UFS? > Only if you have lots of ram (4 GiB or more). Possible with less ram but I believe it's not recommended.help
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